Henry sutcliffb and wright sutcliffe



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Patented May 8, 1883,

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Wzm 83.166.

U ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY SUTGLIFFE AND WEIGHT SUTCLIFFE, OF HALIFAX, COUNTY OF YORK, ENGLAND, ASSIGNORS TO HENRY C. MEYER & 00., OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

WATER-CLOSET TANK OR CISTERN.

SPECIFICATION. forming part of Letters Patent No. 277,172, dated May 8, 1883.

Application filed October 23, 1882.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, HENRY SUTCLIFFE and WRIGHT SUTOLIFFE, of Halifax, county of York, England, have invented a new and useful W'ater-Closet Tank or Oistern; and we do hereby declare that the following is ai'n'll, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this application.

Our present invention relates to a novel tank or cistern lining, such as shown in another application by us, (now pending in the ,United States Patent'Ofiice,) but not claimed size and shape of one solid piece of lead of .such thickness only as the cistern or body need be when composed of lead and surrounded and supported by a jacket or incasement of wood.

By our invention of a new apparatus for molding such thin. vessels orcistern-like re-- ceptacles of one solid piece of lead, madethe subject of the claims in our other pending application, we have been able to overcome the difficulties which had,previous to our said invention, stood in the way of making a solid castlead cistern body or lining adapted to be used in connection with the usual incasing and supporting wooden box, and have thus been enabled to produce, as a new or improved article of manufacture, a solid cast-lead cistern body or lining, which, while it may be made as thin as may be desirable, will have no joints in it.

Our invention consists, then, in a solid east- (No model.)

lead lining or thin cistern body or vessel adapted to be used in combination with the ordinary wooden incasement or supporting-box.

To enable those skilled in the .art to make and use our invention, we will now proceed to more fully describe it, referring by letters to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, and in which, at Figures 1, 2, and 3, we have shown the apparatus by which and the manner'in which we mold the solid-lead cistern or lining. Fig. 4. is aperspective view of, and Fig. 5 is a cross-section of, the lining or solid-lead cistern.

We need not in this appllcation describe or explain the construction and operation of the contrivance shown at Figs. 1, 2, and 3, since that is all fully set forth in our other pending case hereinbefore referred to, and we thereseen at Figs. 4 and 5.

It will be seen that the lining or cisternbody A is cast solid, of lead, and of a thickness sufficient only to form a suitable strong and durable seamless metallic receptacle, for use in combination witha wooden box. or surrounding case such as usually employed to surround and support the heretofore commonly made sheet-lead cisternlinings for such boxes.

HEN RY SUTOLIFFE. WRIGHT SUTGLTFFE.

In presence of- HARTLEY HITCHEN ALBERT FARRAR. 

